INTECH is the first unclassified publication to provide comprehensive description of the warning and electronic protection systems currently in operation and under development during the next decade, as well as the threat systems they're designed to counter. The book treats all types of protection systems in service worldwide -- from missile approach and radar warning receivers, jamming systems, and ECM suites to naval and airborne decoy systems and expendables. It also describes known threat, providing details of missiles which can be launched from static and mobile ground-based sites, from ships, or from aircraft. In addition, it presents comprehensive information on the status, parameters, deployment, and manufacturer of each system.

This is the only unclassified publication to describe the world's threat and countermeasures systems and indicate their platforms and deployment. This 1998 version of the bestselling first edition examines all types of protection systems in service worldwide -- from missile approach and radar warning receivers, jamming systems, and Electronic Countermeasures (ECM) suites to naval and airborne decoy systems and expendables. The book describes known threats, providing details of missiles which can be launched from static and mobile ground-based sites, from ships, or from aircraft. In addition, it presents comprehensive information on the status, parameters, deployment, and manufacturer of each system. This edition includes an important class of military surveillance and electronic intelligence systems -- electronic support measures (ESM); signals intelligence (SIGINT); communications intelligence (COMINT); and direction finding (DF) systems.

The introduction of the microprocessor in computer and system engineering has motivated the development of many new concepts and has simplified the design of many modern industrial systems. During the first decade of their life. microprocessors have shown a tremendous evolution in all possible directions (technology. power. functionality. I/O handling. etc). Of course putting the microprocessors and their environmental devices into properly operating systems is a complex and difficult task requiring high skills for melding and integrating hardware. and systemic components. software This book was motivated by the editors' feeling that a cohesive reference is needed providing a good coverage of modern industrial applications of microprocessor-based real time control, together with latest advanced methodological issues. Unavoidably a single volume cannot be exhaustive. but the present book contains a sufficient number of important real-time applications. The book is divided in two sections. Section I deals with general hardware. software and systemic topics. and involves six chapters. Chapter 1. by Gupta and Toong. presents an overview of the development of microprocessors during their first twelve years of existence. Chapter 2. by Dasgupta. deals with a number of system software concepts for real time microprocessor-based systems (task scheduling. memory management. input-output aspects. programming language reqUirements.

The book presents the recent advancements in the area of sensors and sensing technology, specifically in environmental monitoring, structural health monitoring, dielectric, magnetic, electrochemical, ultrasonic, microfluidic, flow, surface acoustic wave, gas, cloud computing and bio-medical. This book will be useful to a variety of readers, namely, Master and PhD degree students, researchers, practitioners, working on sensors and sensing technology. The book will provide an opportunity of a dedicated and a deep approach in order to improve their knowledge in this specific field.

Bioactive compounds produced by natural sources, such as plants, microbes, endophytic fungi, etc., can potentially be applied in various fields, including agriculture, biotechnology and biomedicine. Several bioactive compounds have proved to be invaluable in mediating plant-microbe interactions, and promoting plant growth and development. Due to their numerous health-promoting properties, these compounds have been widely used as a source of medication since ancient times. However, there is an unprecedented need to meet the growing demand for natural bioactive compounds in the flavor and fragrance, food, and pharmaceutical industries. Moreover, discovering new lead molecules from natural sources is essential to overcoming the rising number of new diseases. In this regard, natural bioactive compounds hold tremendous potential for new drug discovery. Therefore, this field of research has become a vital area for researchers interested in understanding the chemistry, biosynthetic mechanisms, and pharmacological activities of these bioactive metabolites. This book describes the basics of bioactive plant compounds, their chemical properties, and their pharmacological biotechnological properties with regard to various human diseases and applications in the drug, cosmetics and herbal industries. It offers a valuable asset for all students, educators, researchers, and healthcare experts involved in agronomy, ecology, crop science, molecular biology, stress physiology, and natural products.